sadly serving as the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis nationally, California reported 31,245 new cases today and 242 new deaths. “Some hospitals are going to have to resort to crisis care.” “You can usually stretch most rubber bands pretty far as we are stretching our hospitals pretty far,” the state’s leading medical officer declared. “Pre-op beds are being used to serve Covid patients,” he added, going on to raise the specter of looming “rationing of certain supplies and staff, and not every patient gets the level of attention we normally hope they would” in the current surge. Ghaly stated Tuesday of the situation in L.A and the southern part of the state. “Hospitals running out of staff, having to use rooms that they usually don’t use,” Dr. “And that likely projections that in the middle of January we will see a significant higher number of cases than we have today of individuals with Covid who need hospital-level care.” “All of those trends tell me …that we need to continue to work to prepare for the next holiday surge of cases into the early part of next year,” he went on to say. “Over 95% of LA’s hospitals have been in diversion over the past 24 hours,” the CHHS Secretary asserted in what is likely his last briefing of 2020. “Things that were a month ago or two months ago a low-risk activity today are really high risks because of the level of Covid that’s circulating in our communities,” he bluntly said. Ghaly pushed forward to New Year’s Eve too, and tried over and over to warn Californians to resist the desire to see 2021 in with traditional celebrations. “We brace to see what levels of transmissions we expect to see coming out of these celebrations,” the HHS chief wearily noted of an expected post-Christmas surge coming in the next few weeks in this “difficult time.” Dr. County jumped ahead of the state on December 27 and extended the region’s own stay-at-home order indefinitely, hospitals in the area are down to zero ICU beds and running out of space and staff.
Newsom’s band-aid measure may turn out to be a tragic case of too little, too late. Widely anticipated with rising COVID cases and deaths crippling the Golden State’s healthcare system, the latest extension of Gov.
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